INSME’s Secretary General Giovanni Zazzerini attended the World Entrepreneurs Investment Forum, organized by UNIDO ITPO Bahrain in partnership with Annual Investment Meeting, aimed to generate sustainable solutions through networking and collaboration. Learn more here.
The XPRESS Project will host the Co-creation Workshop “Experiences and solutions for the development of GPP in the renewable energy sector”, co-organised with eAmbiente, on April 22, 2022.
BAE, INSME Member, and Invest Europe published the joint paper “Turning start-ups into scale-ups - Incentivising the role of early-stage investors”. Read about the the untapped potential of thousands of investors across Europe here.
The Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs, INSME Member, and the IFC, announced a new program to spur private investments in developing countries through environmental and social risk management. Read about it here.
The OECD published the 10th edition of “Financing SMEs and Entrepreneurs 2022: an OECD Scoreboard”, with a focus on how the global pandemic impacted SME finance, along with framework conditions paired with the policy developments for over 48 nations.
On March 7th, the European Union implemented the InvestEU programme between the European Commission and the EIB Group, composed by the European Investment Bank and the European Investment Fund. Learn more here.
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Entrepreneurship Skill Development Services for USAID
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Mission in Pakistan seeks the services of consultants/firms to conduct training, capacity building sessions and accessing start-up funding opportunities for up to or approximately 155 USAID employees working in the area of international development (hereinafter referred to as “client-employees”). Open application for experts on development services, and assessment on both entrepreneurship landscape and key/local stakeholders, starting from May 1, 2022, till September 30, 2024.
Deadline: April 5, 2022
WE Empower UN SDG Challenge 2022
Applications are now open for the WE Empower UN SDG Challenge 2022. It is the first-of-its-kind global competition for social entrepreneurs who are advancing the UN Sustainable Development Goals and inspiring entire communities to act to create the world they want by 2030. The opportunity recognizes their innovative work and provides Awardees with capacity-building training sessions and opportunities to connect with an unparalleled global network to advance their enterprises.
Deadline: April 15, 2022
New cut off-date added to the Interregional Innovation Investments call
Strand 2a focuses on increasing the capacity of regional innovation ecosystems in less developed regions to participate in global value chains, as well as the capacity to participate in partnerships with other regions. It supports both foreign direct investment-driven value chains and other emerging sectors. Three subcategories come from this strand: digital, green, and manufacturing.
Deadline: April 20, 2022
RESTwithEU - Pilot Project
The RESTwithEU project aims at developing the digital infrastructure of SMEs in the restaurant industry around the EU: mapping the existing tools and carrying out a gap analysis of the tourism ecosystem overall, looking specifically into the restaurant sector. The technical challenge is to define and stimulate the development of technical solutions for specific challenges, particularly for the restaurant sector, and stimulation of new solutions, and guidelines to support the restaurant sector and the wider tourism ecosystem with the possibility of using the network of Digital Innovation Hubs.
Deadline: April 27, 2022
Public Procurement of Innovation Development Open Call
The European Commission has launched an open call to increase innovation in public procurement strategies. The call aims to build an extensive reference base for innovation procurement activities and a network of procurers. This call is part of the EU’s Single Market Programme, which has a budget of €4,2 million over the period 2021-2027 and provides an integrated package to support and strengthen the Single Market. A key objective is improving the competitiveness of businesses, especially SMEs, to complement financial support offered through InvestEU.
Deadline: May 3, 2022
Digital Europe Programme
The aim of this program is to support the development of advanced digital skills of people in the labour force, with a focus on SMEs, by providing affordable access to high quality specialised training courses, reflecting the latest developments in key capacity areas, such as Cybersecurity, AI, cloud or microelectronics. SMEs owners, managers and employees will have the possibility to attend high-class digital training that larger companies can more easily afford. This action contributes to the implementation of the SME strategy for a sustainable and digital Europe, which will ultimately contribute to increasing the number of people able to design, develop and deploy digital solutions in the economy and across sectors.
Deadline: May 17, 2022
Ideas Powered for business SME Fund
Grant scheme designed to support the intellectual property (IP) rights of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the EU. The SME Fund is an initiative of the European Commission implemented by the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO).
Deadline: 16 December 2022.
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